Willa Wasserman

Her figures are loose and diaphanous, at times unknowable, each charged by the small shifts in materiality and atmosphere that span her many surfaces (stretched linen, polished copper, brass, or otherwise). But rather than resolving into definition, the artist’s universe remains in flux: change and translucence are often themselves the defining forms. Marrying historical technique with keen material experimentation–oil paint and silverpoint, to metallic substrates and oxidizing reagents–Wasserman conjures bodies and landscapes in a breathing library of shifting desire and identity. Tender moments of intimacy reveal themselves through hazy, incandescent gestures. Dream-like silhouettes that slowly react over time suggest histories as well as futures of transitional selfhood. With great sensitivity, Wasserman’s artworks speak to the gossamer mechanisms through which sex and self are ceaselessly formed.

Willa Wasserman was born in 1990 in Evansville, USA. She lives and works in New York, USA. Recent solo exhibitions include: High Art, Paris, France; François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, USA; Downs & Ross, New York, USA; Good Weather, Chicago, USA; in lieu, Los Angeles, USA; The Gallery at Michaels, Santa Monica, USA. Group exhibitions include: No Name, Paris, France; Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London, UK; Michael Werner Gallery, London, UK; Bally Foundation, Lugano, Switzerland; Downs & Ross, New York, USA; Adams and Ollman, Portland, USA; Sargent’s Daughters, New York, USA; and Park View / Paul Soto, Los Angeles, USA.